Seriously, never would have thought of it. There's nothing about either that mentally suggests that they should be paired up. But that's what I was serving as a starter course one night when one of several dinner guests, Jim Dietz, brought a Miner Viognier, and that's where it fit best in the line-up of wines we were serving. The pairing was so unexpectedly perfect it had all of us bug-eyed in wonder.

My wine shopping and I have never had a problem. Just a perpetual race between the bankruptcy court and Hell.--Rogov

I have an emotional attachment to the Miner Viognier.. I still think it is a pretty good bottle of wine every year, though some years are better than others, as they should be. The '05 is pretty tasty.

Another one I like comes from Cedarville.

And, Jenise, I do remember that food/wine match. Another I remember was a Texier Cotes du Rhone with one of your salads. The tastes are still in my mind and mouth.

The SMV is ready to drink (that's not an '01 too, is it?? not '03), and the Garys' is, to my taste, excellent.. I bought quite a few of those. The Pisoni could probably sit a while...The Lafond, I don't know...